Anyone for used toner?

Finally the toner has left the building, well technically it's still here but it's no longer my biggest pain. The 2nd tech came back today to finish the job and after getting the round about answer I think it's nothing we can do to prevent it from happening. Don't you just love to hear that answer it's just one of those things, now here's your bill for a few thousand. It's like when your car breaks down you take it in and they say so and so is wrong wish we could have caught this earlier it could have saved you thousands. So you ask what you think is the intelligent question of ok how could I have prevented this? Well there should be a light that comes on and then a noise that tells you to completely shut-down the car right that second. You mean like when I'm going 70 down the freeway just completely shut it down? And they look at you like you just grew a 3rd eye for asking such a dumb question .... well duh yes! At this time your head is going to explode but hey don't do that they may add a few more hundred for the cleaning fee. So basically just before this your not going to get dinner just the unpleasant experience. At least back in the day I'd get dinner. LOL just playing.

So after that fun mind boggling morning we go into crap we haven't had a copier for 2 days! Alexis this needs to be done this minute! Of course it does! During this my mom calls to invite me and the boys over for dinner. Sure we would love to come over, no problem I'll be off at the usual time or a little earlier. Ok now from the past I should know never to say these words, it's the kiss of death of me leaving anytime soon! Yup you got it I got out of there almost an hour late!

Now since I'm having such a great week let's add a trip to the bank. Let me just give you a visual, pull up 3 cars ahead of me. Well I'm going to be here a while, it's Friday it's after 5pm! So I decide to be useful put in my law abiding hands free ear piece and call the call center I'm trying to get a part-time weekend night job thru. We get to talking all is going well the line of course speeds up and it's my time at the teller. I pass all my info thru and nod thinking ok I can do this I don't need to speak to her, just smile. Well of course she doesn't like my license, guess I forgot to get a new one it expired in June. Ok on a side note, I can see getting pulled over but taking money out of my own account I can't do. Do I as a person 8 years morph into a new person, so the person on my license is not even the same? So she asked for my debit card, I put that threw the window mind you still doing a mini interview over the phone. That of course doesn't work and now she wants to have a full fledged talk. So I so rudely have to put my semi interview on hold and talk with her. Great! All she wants to tell me is my license is aspired and since they forgot to put my picture on my debit card she can't give me money. Oh yeah but you can go over to the ATM, but that won't give you the full amount you need for daycare! Can anyone see a trend going on here? Who the heck did I piss off in a previous life?

Oh yeah while I'm walking to the ATM I forgot to take my cell with me while I'm doing the semi-interview on my stupid hands free which of course cuts off. Apparently you can only walk so far away from the cell phone! Oh joy so after putting her on hold, I'm now hanging up on her! Thankfully they're very nice people and when I call back she of course is on the phone, but the other lady was very nice and told me not to worry. Oh boy!

Off to daycare I go to pay with half cash and half check, yippee. I get there to a screaming crew and guess who's leading the pack. Yup it's Cole! So we pack up oh so quickly before Grandma Pat's head may explode and off to my parent's house. Thankfully Cole is at the great age where we can go walk around with Bapa and pick blueberries etc. Caden is starting to warm up to others besides my pant leg hugger he usually is. I was actually able to have a cup of coffee and a glass of wine! Mom made a great dinner, that I even remembered to bring Rick a plate home since he's out doing an event. Take that boy ... LOL.

Wow what a day I'm exhausted! Oh wait this new part-time job is Friday and Saturday nights from 11pm to 1am. Oh gees I better by some stronger coffee if I'm already ready for bed at 9pm. Well just to torture myself some more I think I'll take the boys to the farmers market in the morning. Let's see how that goes, fingers crossed!

And the toner goes on ...

And the toner goes on and on …. I think every piece of my clothing has a magnetic to attract loser “waste” toner since yet again I look down and see a huge black mark across my chest. Like I need a huge neon arrow pointing to my chest! I really need to run away and have Calgon take me away. Oh wait a bath tub with bubbles is just an invitation for 2 boys to run screaming and throwing bubbles everywhere. Yup the bathroom is no longer a place of piece, it’s just another room that the door is not allowed to be shut at anytime. If you make the mistake of closing the door it will just swing up with a burst of screaming and crying. Like somehow closing the door has turned the bathroom into a space shuttle that rocket me to another plant. One can only wish.



Ok back to reality and the constant parade of people that keep coming into my office asking about the copier machine. I now know the true meaning of going postal! Next person that comes in may get something stapled to their head! It is driving some people nuts I think it may make their heads explode. This guy is the typical maintenance person that is always stereotyped being slow and not very up and up on how to fix things. His inability to get the copier fixed in the time frame he gave us is making people see red. And you got it I’m the one that keeps getting all the questions and frustration why he’s not done.

So I had this bright plan to leave early, which since I came in an hour early would be on time. I had this great plan to take the boys to the zoo. Tarra and I got a zoo membership, which is going to be GREAT I can take the boys they can look around and I can get in my walking. Win win for everyone involved! Well that plan didn’t pan out at all, the copier finally was done let me see 4:30pm!! So of course I had a plan that needed to go out and oh yeah be hand delivered also! So here’s a picture for you, me taking a 100+ page document sending it thru the fax machines document feeder! Oh yeah life is grand, plus sending my runner to the local copy shop to make copies of 11x17’s because of course my fax machine doesn’t do that.

So an hour later than I wanted I made it out of the office, to pick up the boys oh yeah and drop back off the ground package that also had to go out. Made it to the zoo with an hour before they close, good times is all I can say! Ok pulling two kids in the wagon is hard work! I took a look at myself in the review mirror after I was done and let me tell you it was a sight! Thankfully most people were gone by the time we go there, if not they have run screaming from the zoo.

What we have to ride?

That's ok mom I don't mind be strapped in.

Look at this mom! MOM!!!!

Mom why did we stop? Why do you look like that?

Time to go home and
I'll take my monkey home.

Back home for dinner and baths and if I can get my legs to move I might take a shower myself. Oh boy I hope the feeling comes back soon in my whole body, tomorrow morning is going to be interesting.

Murphy's Law at work

Today started so great with Caden waking up 15 minutes before the alarm, you know that time when you get your best sleep right before the alarm goes off! Get up with him, I will hang those curtains tonight if it kills me! I got up and decided it was time to put my clothes on and do the hair thing. Maybe today I won't look like the punk rock style that I have had the last few weeks.

Then I get to work to make a copy that turns into blur of black comes out at me. Oh yeah toner head to toe on me and then everywhere on the copier. After an hour of cleaning up toner with my can of air and roll of paper towels, I give up and make a service call to the copier people. While I wait for that call I get to work on the pile on my desk. When the next problem arises. Someone has shredded so much that the shredder won't even open. The joke answer is it takes 1 engineer and 2 office staff to get the drawer to open. With a confetti exploding like I've just won Miss America all over my room. Grab the shop vac and start to clean. I now am covered with toner and if I shake my hair shreds of paper will fall. I tell the girls I'm my own print shop all you need to do is shake me and then rub my shirt for toner! Oh yeah can't wait to go home.

Well it looks like the copy machine is done for another day which makes everyone in the office so happy acting like I personally told it to stop working! I have a pile of work to do and it looks like another late night at work. Hopefully I'll get home before it's dark out.

I'm going to go nurse this headache that I've had since last night and hope that the paper fairy visits my office and does all the work! Hmmm ....